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CVE-2024-4755: Google CSE <= 1.0.7 - Admin+ Stored XSS

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-06-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-79

Description

The Google CSE WordPress plugin through 1.0.7 does not sanitise and escape some of its settings, which could allow high privilege users such as admin to perform Stored Cross-Site Scripting attacks even when the unfiltered_html capability is disallowed (for example in multisite setup)

Affected products

• Google CSE: through 1.0.7

References

• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/adc6ea6d-29d8-4ad0-b0db-2540e8b3f9a9/
• https://wpscan.com/vulnerability/adc6ea6d-29d8-4ad0-b0db-2540e8b3f9a9/

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